Appomattox Quotes

#1. Generals, admirals, kings, and presidents make history; words change history. In more than two centuries of watching, at least that has not changed. -- Joshua Augustus Johnson. "Appomattox

Lloyd Vancil

#2. While the old spiritual 'Slavery Chain Done Broke at Last' was sung by blacks in the hours following the Appomattox surrender, racism sadly continues to be a crippling national scourge.

Douglas Brinkley

#3. If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Bill Veeck

#4. The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

Douglas Brinkley

#5. California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Nicolas Berggruen

#6. I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

Iris Apfel

#7. Merry a mind is

of a weeping willow

roots raising concrete

be in

fit out

all abstract.

Antonia Perdu

#8. Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws.

Milton R. Hunter

#9. I have a high priest in heaven

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#10. Sometimes the things we believe we hear are really just our own shifting needs.

Tiffany McDaniel

#11. The dead are silenced and the living are speechless.Who's going to tell their stories if I don't?

Gillian Rubinstein

#12. You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

Agatha Christie

#13. I've always thought that it might be fun to be Catholic, to be able to go to the confessional and unburden yourself and have someone tell you that they forgive you, to take all the sin away, wipe the slate clean.

Paula Hawkins

#14. After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

Annie Oakley

#15. ...I believe our early experiences and beliefs about our place in the world inform who we think we are and what we deserve and by what means it should be given to us.

Cheryl Strayed

#16. Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Herbert Gold

#17. I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Yahoo Serious

#18. A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn't really define love with money. It was more than that.

Diyar Harraz

#19. I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America ... I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America.

David Duke